Media criticism.

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• Danger! Cliché Ahead! The war on terror enters the most dangerous phase—again.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 19, 2001
  
• Off With Their Standing Heds! The New York Times op-ed page's space-saving decapitation.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 10, 2001
  
• Editor Stufflebeem Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. speaks at length to his readers—and says almost nothing.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 6, 2001
  
• Howell Raines Owes Me an Apology The New York Times editor's sudden conversion to public journalism.
  James Fallows Dec. 3, 2001
  
• Recounting the Media's Florida Recount Nobody knows anything, the Chicago Tribune gamely concedes.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 13, 2001
  
• Truth and Condit Frenzies 
  William Saletan July 31, 2001
  
• The Beat Sweetener: Robert S. Mueller III 
  Jack Shafer July 30, 2001
  
• The Return of McSwoonery 
  Jack Shafer July 27, 2001
  
• The Post's "Weird and Appalling" Ombudsman 
  Jack Shafer April 10, 2001
  
• Can Brill's and Inside Get Along? 
  Tim Carvell April 9, 2001
  
• At Least They're Not Calling Him Pol Pot 
  Jack Shafer March 23, 2001
  
• The Mystery of the Departing Guests 
  Michael Kinsley March 22, 2001
  
• Preach It Wide, Preach It Narrow 
  March 14, 2001
  
• The Clinton vs. Bush Headline Derby 
  Jack Shafer March 6, 2001
  
• Buzzing Howie Kurtz's Buzzometer 
  Jack Shafer Feb. 21, 2001
  
• President-for-Life Bill Clinton 
  Jack Shafer Feb. 20, 2001
  
• Correction of the Week 
  Feb. 9, 2001
  
• Was the White House Trashing Story Garbage? 
  Joshua Micah Marshall Jan. 29, 2001